Finnaun

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finnaun, from 1,690 m² to 25,977,926 m² (2,597.79 ha, 6,419.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Finnaun in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 14 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the felling of approx. 35.4 hectares of conifer plantation and drain blocking within an area of up to 39.1ha for the purposes of habitat enhancement and peatland restoration. Works will include i) Manual and mechanical felling of coniferous trees, ii) Drain blocking by installing dams in conifer forest drains to maintain, enhance and restore the favorable baseline hydrological and ecological conditions

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561113

• 14 Feb 2020Unconditional

  for a 10 year permission to construct a wind farm consisting of 22 wind turbines, each with maximum hub height of 90m, maximum rotor diameter of 101m and with a total tip height of 140.5m, one permanent 90m meteorological mast, a sub-station including three control buildings and associated equipment, expansion of three existing borrow pits and two new borrow pits, new internal access roads, upgrading of existing internal access roads, expansion of drainage system, turbine hardstands, wastewater holding tank, underground cables and ancillary works (gross floor space 368.48sqm)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 20198

• 25 Sept 2019Conditional

  for a 10 year permission for development at Derradda, Seecon, Shannapheasteen, Uggool, Letter, Finnaun. The development will consist of the following elements; A change to the dimensions of nine previously consented turbines (Galway County Council Planning Reference 10/303 and 11/429 and An Bord Pleanala Planning Reference PL07.239118) from a maximum hub height of 90m and rotor diameter of 101m with a maximum turbine tip height of 140.5m, to a maximum rotor diameter of 138m with a maximum turbine tip height of 156m; Adjust the locations of three turbines as follows: T9 moved 6m, T30 moved 16m & T40 moved 16m; Provision of 1.9km of new internal wind farm access roads, localised upgrades to existing access roads. Underground cable route connecting proposed turbines to the Knockranny substation at Letter, on or adjacent to existing wind farm roads. Three new borrow pits located adjacent to proposed T19, T20 and T31 for rock excavation and peat deposition; Extension of two existing / permitted borrow pit for the excavation of rock and the deposition of surplus peat material. All on a site of approximately 76.07ha. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report and & Natura Impact Statement has been prepared and accompanies this application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191481

• 18 Jul 2018N/a

  for a 10 year planning permission for the development of a 9 turbine wind farm development and associated infrastructure at Derradda, Seecon, Shannapheasteen, Uggool, Doon, Letter, and Finnaun. The development will consist of the following elements: A Change to the dimensions of nine previously consented turbines (Galway County Council Planning Ref. 10/303, 11/249 and An Bord Pleanála Planning Reference PL07.239118) from a maximum hub height of 90m and rotor diameter of 101m with a total turbine tip height of 140.5m to a maximum hub height of 99m and a maximum rotor diameter of 136m with a maximum turbine tip height of 156m; adjust the locations of three turbines as follows; T9 moved 6m, T30 moved 16m & T40 moved 16m; Provision of 1.9km of new internal wind farm access roads, localized upgrades to existing access road and all underground cabling and associated infrastructure. Three new borrow pits located adjacent to proposed T19, T20 and T31 for rock excavation and peat deposition; Extension of an existing/permitted borrow pit for the excavation of rock and the deposition of surplus peat material. An Environmental Impact Statement & Natura Impact statement has been prepared and accompanies this application.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181014

• 26 Apr 2017Conditional

  for modifications to Cloosh 110kv Sub-station (previously granted under Planning Ref. 10/303). The site is located within the townland of Finnaun, Co. Galway. The development will consist of the modification to the layout of the substation, modifications to the building design, reduction in the number of buildings on site and modifications to associated infrastructure. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 326.064 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17577

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA 004181
• Natural Heritage Area: Oughterard District Bog NHA 002431
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Finnaun.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Finnaun.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Finnaun, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Finnaun.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Finnaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Finnaun · Fionnán

Area

30,564,781 m² (3,056.48 ha, 7,552.72 acres)

Civil parish

Killannin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Killannin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,108 people lived in 416 households in the Killannin electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardderroo, Boliska Oughter, Bovroughaun, Cloghernagun, Letter, Letterfir, Seecon, Shannapheasteen, Uggool

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Finnaun on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.